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San Francisco's iconic Ocean Beach amusement
park, Playland at the Beach, closed its gates for good
nearly four decades ago. Even so, its legacy lives on
in an El Cerrito museum and a new documentary. We look
back at the park which gave us Laffing Sal, the Big
Dipper rollercoaster and the Its-It ice cream sandwich
-- and which influenced the development of Disneyland.
Host: Scott Shafer
Guests:
- James Smith, San Francisco historian and author of "San
Francisco's Lost Landmarks" and the forthcoming
book, "San Francisco's Playland at the Beach: the
Early Years"
- Marv Gold, former employee of Playland at the Beach and member
of the Playland-Not-at-the-Beach advisory board
- Richard Tuck, master of fun at Playland-Not-at-the-Beach in El
Cerrito, a museum and amusement center which houses
thousands of artifacts from Playland at the Beach
- Tom Wyrsch, filmmaker behind the documentary, "Remembering
Playland at the Beach"
More info:
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Screening times and tickets for "Remembering
Playland at the Beach"
: at BalboaMovies.com
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About El Cerrito's Playland-Not-at-the-Beach
: at PlaylandNotAtTheBeach.org
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Saturday, March 20 marks the seventh
anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War. But some
families observe a different anniversary -- the day they
got word that a loved one died during military service.
We talk with family members of those who died about how
they're coping with their loss.
Host: Scott Shafer
Guests:
- Bonnie Carroll, major in the Air Force Reserve and executive
director and founder of the Tragedy Assistance
Program for Survivors (TAPS), which she founded
following the death of her husband, Brigadier
General Tom Carroll, in an Army plane crash in 1992
- Kathleen Grace, mother of 19 year old Casey M. LaWare, who was
killed in a fire in Iraq in 2005
- Stefanie Tomlinson, former Marine Corps widow who lost her husband,
Steven Begehr in a 1995 military aircraft crash
- Walter Williams, case manager at the Employment and Training Program
at Swords to Plowshares
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Michael Krasny talks with David Shenk, author
of "The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been
Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ is Wrong." Shenk's
other books include "The Forgetting," "Data Smog" and
"The Immortal Game."
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- David Shenk, author, correspondent for TheAtlantic.com and
contributor to National Geographic, Slate, The New
York Times, Gourmet, Harper's, The New Yorker, NPR
and PBS
More info:
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About the book "The Genius in All of Us"
: at Amazon.com
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Hundreds of cases of alleged sexual abuse by
Catholic priests have come to light in Germany, Ireland
and Brazil in recent weeks. We discuss the alleged abuse
and what it means for the Catholic Church.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
- Barbara Dorris, national outreach director for Survivors Network of
those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
- David Francis, correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor,
based in Germany
- Jim Donahue, president and professor of ethics at the Graduate
Theological Union
- Maurice Healy, director of communications and outreach for the
Archdiocese of San Francisco
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